OregonFlora species comparison

1–5+; without cluster of basal bulbils; more or less globose;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs; brownish, membranous, reticulate;

cells very fine, often obscure; narrow; more or less transversely elongate, intricately contorted; without fibers.

usually persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat; more or less falcate, linear, channeled, 7–24 cm × 0.5–3 mm.

persistent; solitary; erect; solid; terete or slightly flattened to very narrowly winged, 3–15 cm × 0.5–2 mm.

persistent; erect; compact, 10–20(40)-flowered, hemispheric to globose;

pedicels 3–10 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

5–8 mm;

tepals erect, lanceolate; more or less equal, white with prominent greenish or pink midribs;

margins entire;

apex obtuse to acuminate; more or less involute at tip;

stamens included;

ovary crestless or obscurely crested with 3 low processes;

stigma unlobed.

=14.